A must see documentary! IMHO-the best doc of the year. Please watch & share. Thank you for sharing it, Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social‬ Hugo @[email protected] Nikki @nrbakerwriter.bsky.social & others

So, are we going to aid & abet the fossil fuel industries & the capitalist billionaires to keep lining their pockets today? Or are we going to take action to ensure that our children have a habitable planet tomorrow? This isn't alarmist journalism. This is what it all boils down to. Time to choose.

Humans kill 100m sharks every year. 73% have their fins chopped off & are thrown back into the sea to die slowly & painfully. Wtf is wrong with us? 🤬 "Mankind"... what an oxymoron. Let's hope there are some other species left when our reign of terror on Earth comes to a messy and inglorious end.

Thanks to @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social for recommending this powerful documentary. It's honest, hard-hitting & essential. Please watch & share. Excellent work by Dr Sofia Pineda Ochoa with brilliant contributions from Nandita Bajaj, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & co. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...

Now that it's December, I can legally mention the C word! 🎄🎁 "10:59" is an ideal Christmas gift, especially for young adults (and older adults) who are tricky to buy for! Don't just take my word for it - check out reviews like this on Goodreads 😊 nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/

Seems to me that every year the outcomes of COP are the same: disappointment & no meaningful changes. What's the point? How do we re-think the conference & switch things up a gear? Why do our world leaders care so little that tipping points are being passed? Should it be renamed COP-out??? #COP30

I wonder where this fallen tree is off to, all decked out in its fancy fungus frills... 🤔💃

What a time to be alive. 🤦‍♀️ Censorship means that you can't "make a joint decision to kill the lights"... you have to "make a j**nt decision to [unalive] the lights". Who are we protecting? Not the 10-year-olds who can all too easily get hold of guns and drugs, that's for sure.

A glass-half-empty person would focus on the fact that my quarterly royalties wouldn't buy me half a glass of anything very exciting 🫤🍷 But I'm a glass-half-full person, and I think it's so damn COOL that people in the UK, US, Germany and Canada bought my little book "10:59" this summer 😀🥂 Cheers!

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If you gaze long into the moon, the moon also gazes into you... Happy #Hallowe'en, BlueSky peeps!

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We get such a thrill when we encounter our neighbours 😃 It's such a privilege to share our environment with so many amazing creatures. I mean, look at this beauty... the subtle gleam of its smooth scales... the gorgeous copper colour... the sinuous wiggles... I love slow worms 😍💚 #reptiles #nature

Rufus hates being photographed while he's eating. Still, he's more photogenic than I am when I'm caught with food in my mouth. Om nom nom... #slug #gastropod #nature

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We think extinction happens when a species disappears. But for most, it begins long before—when roads, fields, and fences break the world into pieces so small that life can only breed with itself. www.popsci.com/environment/...

World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’ and the oceans devoid of marine life Humans are not the caretakers of Mother Nature They are its destroyers and will leave nothing for other species in the quest for more and more materialism www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Passenger pigeon. Ivory-billed woodpecker. Eskimo curlew. Slender-billed curlew. Every extinction is a wake-up call. Our default setting is snooze. theconversation.com/slender-bill...

Last winter for three months running, the temp anomaly in the Arctic was 10-15°c above normal, a record. It's currently forecast to be 15-20°C. If this happens there'll be no denying we've lost the Arctic. I believe we already have. #kissyourassgoodbye

In the gloaming I sat watching the forest gather dusk around its roots. A tiny wren landed close then came closer still. I held those moments as tight as I dared storing them gently in my memory among a wealth of similar small treasures. For it is these rare gifts that truly make life worth living.

If you think biodiversity loss is irrelevant to you... If you think it's not that big an issue... If you think it doesn't really affect you personally... If you think it's someone else's problem... ... Boy oh boy, you and your kids have a hell of a shock coming. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No place to run We are so deep in a climate crisis that has not happened in millions of years and has not yet fully manifested in reality, that no amount of renewable energy will solve it. We need to save all existing forests and wetlands and restore degraded areas and stop economic growth

"Those who lead through fear only stay in power while those they govern lack courage."

"Failure is not inevitable. Failure is a choice." We've known about all this for decades. And we've chosen to change nothing. We've chosen to drive our cars, have more babies, jet off on holidays, turn up the heating, stick our heads in the sand, & change nothing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Give the wildlife in your garden a break

There's some really good stuff here: overpopulation-project.com/new-page-to-...

Aw, you can't really blame the humans - most of 'em were bred in captivity.

We haven't had a TV for years, but we sometimes watch DVDs. Last night we watched 4 episodes of Friends. Some would call that a binge... but in this case it's more of a Frenzy.

You don’t become a “Doomer” because you are pathologically drawn to catastrophe. You are one because you have a heightened sense of empathy: for nature, humans, and everything that lives and “is”

Nature is an elegantly efficient masterpiece 💚 Nothing is wasted. Everything depends on everything else for food, habitat, or shelter, in a mind-blowing and fascinating harmony of complex interactions. We're part of that! We should be celebrating & protecting it, not doing our utmost to trash it.

We're all in that seasonal, SAD, fall moment. The deep breath before the great plunge 🖤

I first saw this brilliant, tragic image 5 years ago. Depressingly, nothing whatsoever has changed since then. This is why I'm a #doomer (PS: If anyone knows the artist, I'd love to credit them.)

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

I have friends whose lives are clouded by negative emotions over things that happened in the past or things that other people do/say/think. Find a way to let those things go. You can't change or control them. The only things you can really influence are yourself and the future. Take care of those.

Scientists shocked. Humans shrug. Collapse ahead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Deforestation is never 'just trees'. It’s half a million lives lost in 20 years because we stripped away nature’s cooling system. We don't just need nature. We ARE nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wow, thank you @freakshowboy.bsky.social ! 😀

"Read it. Then share it with everyone you care about." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/

We've turned a conveniently blind eye to all of the myriad ways in which we've fucked up this beautiful planet. It's all coming back to bite us. It's all because of human overpopulation and greed. It's time to start paying for all the damage we've wrought... and the price is unthinkable. 😔💚

The biggest threats aren’t meteors or monsters. They’re the invisible ones: plastics in our blood, ecosystems unraveling, toxic air, AI powered by fossil fuels. Humanity ignores the danger until it’s too late to act. apnews.com/article/ai-d...

Sickening pathetic and soul destroying In Ireland climate change is being used as an excuse to destroy what little is left of Nature Cut down the Trees to prevent Trees falling Concrete side of rivers lest there be a flood Hedges nature last refuge 6,000km of hedgerows ripped up every year

Bsky authors, what would be the most appropriate merch for your book? #booksky #writingcommunity Mine would probably be a refillable water bottle that says: "It's like yelling at cows". nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/

Many birds with young migrated through Chicago last night. At least 100 were found dead in downtown Chicago this morning-& it’s only the beginning. Many bird strikes go unreported. Keep lights out 11pm-6am to prevent bird deaths volunteer Chicago birdmonitors.net flap.org birdmapper.org ahnow.org

The smarter technology becomes, the less usable it is. Or is that just me...? 😩

Do you remember when sparrows were everywhere? Yeah, those days are gone. Europe’s House Sparrow population has plummeted by up to 60% since 1980 due to insect declines, sealed buildings limiting nesting sites, and pollution (pesticides etc.). This is the silence we've created 💔 Pic: Jonn Leffmann

Plastics 'crisis' is costing $1.5tn in global deaths from heart failure to dementia new report confirms Less than 10% of plastic is recycled Plastic set to triple to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060 More than 16,000 chemicals used in plastics, many not regulated phys.org/news/2025-08...

A teacher who read my book with a student said: "10:59 has encouraged & enabled him to think for himself; to be interested in the wider world. He’s observing & asking questions. He's visibly less anxious & fearful & he genuinely laughs with understanding! Thank you!" @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered